Nathan Gregory Silvermaster who was Russian-Jewish ran the Silvermaster spy group that penetrated American government agencies and various institutions that produced valuable information from recruited couriers. The Silvermaster spy group at one point penetrated the US Treasury. Nathan Silvermaster it is alleged was a courier of intelligence information for Earl Browder. Nathan Silvermaster's Soviet handler was likely the Russian-Jewish Jacob Golos (Yakov Naumovich Tasin) who was an extremely active KGB intelligence asset. Considering some of this background on the Browder family, it is likely William Browder's pillaging of Russian assets wasn't about what you know but who you know in Russia. Most of the high level Soviet spies involved with the Silvermaster spy group were Jewish, so it is likely William Browder benefitted from possible networks in Russia.
News update for 6 July 2020: U.S. & UK intensify campaign against Russia; UK harks back to first pillar of new Cold War, the Magnitsky hoax
News update for 7 July 2020: Russia to impose reciprocal sanctions on UK following publication of 'Magnitsky List'
During the operations of the Silvermaster spy group using the Communist Party USA as cover, some of this intelligence related to technology pillaged out of America was taken to Israel. The continuation of this spying was through the Jonathan Pollard spy network of which he was a part, ended up with stolen American intelligence related to technology in Israel. One of the most telling aspects of Jonathan Pollard's operations was removing intelligence in return for visas issued to Soviet-Jews in order to migrate to Israel. In Israel, the media takes the side of William Browder in Russia's criminal investigation of his operations in Russia. We're not even going to comment on the paid Neocon Israeli agent-in-place John Bolton. There are allegations Steve Bannon was the ghostwriter for John Bolton's book. More on Bolton and his Neocon buddy in the UK:
THE FROG WHO GOT TOO BIG FOR HIS BOOTS AND WAS TURNED INTO A TOADY — SIR MARK SEDWILL SACKED, BRITISH POLICY ON RUSSIA FOR REVIEW
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Source: The Komisar Scoop
Bolton's Russiagate fakery: he repeats the Browder-Magnitsky hoax
By Lucy Komisar | June 21, 2020
Hardly a surprise, but John Bolton buys into the Browder-Magnitsky hoax promoted by convicted tax fraudster William Browder.
Hear my audio of this story on Fault Lines at 1hr 32min into the broadcast.
The place where it happens in The Room Where it Happened is the July 2018 Helsinki meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Here Bolton is shaking hands with "the villain." Well, it was a photo op.
The U.S. Justice Department had just indicted agents of the GRU, the foreign military-intelligence agency of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. It charged them with hacking into the Democratic National Committee computers and releasing the information to influence the 2016 election. The emails showed how the DNC, which was supposed to be neutral, helped Hillary Clinton against Bernie Sanders in the primary.
It is relevant that the U.S. intelligence assessment written in January 2017 said in effect "we have no proof." See the very last page, Annex B. That's called burying the lede. No matter. The Justice Department dropped the case, folded, when the Russians contested it and demanded discovery! Actual proof!
And now we know from testimony from the CEO of Crowdstrike, Shaun Henry, whose company examined the DNC server, that he lied when he said the Russians were responsible. Based on his statements, the Mueller report (April 2019) said the GRU "appeared" to have stolen the DNC emails. But in December 2017, more than a year earlier, Henry told the House Intelligence Committee run by Rep. Adam Schiff that there was no evidence of who had "exfiltrated" the data. Schiff kept the testimony secret till it was finally released with testimony of other witnesses in May 2020. So the Russia stole the DNC emails story was fake!
Also fake, the "Magnitsky was a lawyer" story
Bolton writes that Putin offered to try the agents and let Mueller's investigators (yes, that was still going on) come to Russia for their work, "so long as there was reciprocity with respect to Bill Browder, a businessman whose lawyer in Russia, Sergei Magnitsky, had been arrested and killed by the Putin regime."
We know that Magnitsky wasn't a lawyer, Browder admitted in a deposition in U.S. federal court that Magnitsky didn't go to law school or have a law license. See the clip.
Browder admits Magnitsky didn't go to law school or have a law license.
Browder's deposition 2015 U.S. federal court Southern District of New York.
Magnitsky was an accountant who worked for Browder from 1997, handling his tax evasion and fraud against the Russian Treasury. Magnitsky's 2006 and 2008 testimonies to investigators are marked "Education: higher, 'economist'" and "Work place: auditor in CJSC 'Firestone Duncan'." Browder lies that he was a lawyer he hired in 2007 to deflect attention from his real role over a decade.
We know that Magnitsky got terrible medical treatment in prison, but there is no evidence he was "killed." See the report of the Physicians for Human Rights, Cambridge, Mass., that Browder commissioned and to which he provided any evidence he could scarf up.
By the way, a pet peeve, the use of the word "regime." "Regime" means a government the U.S. government doesn't like. When is the last time you heard the Saudi dictatorship referred to as the Saudi "regime?" Or the Egyptian "regime." Usually, I tune out anything following that signal of bias, prevalent in the mainstream press. But I continued.
Please go to The Komisar Scoop to read the entire article.
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Source: The Unz Review
Bill Browder, a Billionaire Accused of Being a Fraud and Liar
By JOHN RYAN • JULY 1, 2020 • 46 COMMENTS
Browder speaks to the protesters in front of the Russian Consulate in Toronto in March 2016. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Mykola Swarnyk
William "Bill" Browder has been a figure of some prominence on the world scene for the past decade. A few months back, Der Spiegel published a major exposé on him and the case of Sergei Magnitsky but the mainstream media completely ignored this report and so aside from Germany few people are aware of Browder's background and the Magnitsky issue which resulted in sanctions on Russia.
Browder had gone to Moscow in 1996 to take advantage of the privatization of state companies by Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Browder founded Hermitage Capital Management, a Moscow investment firm registered in offshore Guernsey in the Channel Islands. For a time, it was the largest foreign investor in Russian securities. Hermitage Capital Management was rated as extremely successful after earning almost 3,000 percent in its operations between 1996 and December 2007.
During the corrupt Yeltsin years, with his business partner's US $25 million, Browder amassed a fortune. Profiting from the large-scale privatizations in Russia from 1996 to 2006 his Hermitage firm eventually grew to $4.5 billion.
When Browder encountered financial difficulties with Russian authorities he portrayed himself as an anti-corruption activist and became the driving force behind the Magnitsky Act, which resulted in economic sanctions aimed at Russian officials. However, an examination of Browder’s record in Russia and his testimony in court cases reveals contradictions with his statements to the public and Congress, and raises questions about his motives in attacking corruption in Russia.
Although he has claimed that he was an 'activist shareholder' and campaigned for Russian companies to adopt Western-style governance, it has been reported that he cleverly destabilized companies he was targeting for takeover. Canadian blogger Mark Chapman has revealed that after Browder would buy a minority share in a company he would resort to lawsuits against this company through shell companies he controlled. This would destabilize the company with charges of corruption and insolvency. To prevent its collapse the Russian government would intervene by injecting capital into it, causing its stock market to rise—with the result that Browder's profits would rise exponentially.
Later, through Browder's Russian-registered subsidiaries, his accountant Magnitsky acquired extra shares in Russian gas companies such as Surgutneftegaz, Rosneft and Gazprom. This procedure enabled Browder's companies to pay the residential tax rate of 5.5% instead of the 35% that foreigners would have to pay.
However, the procedure to bypass the Russian presidential decree that banned foreign companies and citizens from purchasing equities in Gazprom was an illegal act. Because of this and other suspected transgressions, Magnitsky was interrogated in 2006 and later in 2008. Initially he was interviewed as a suspect and then as an accused. He was then arrested and charged by Russian prosecutors with two counts of aggravated tax evasion committed in conspiracy with Bill Browder in respect of Dalnyaya Step and Saturn, two of Browder's shell companies to hold shares that he bought. Unfortunately, in 2009 Magnitsky died in pre-trial detention because of a failure by prison officials to provide prompt medical assistance.
Browder has challenged this account and for years he has maintained that Magnitsky's arrest and death were a targeted act of revenge by Russian authorities against a heroic anti-corruption activist.
It's only recently that Browder's position was challenged by the European Court of Human Rights who in its ruling on August 27, 2019 concluded that Magnitsky's "arrest was not arbitrary, and that it was based on reasonable suspicion of his having committed a criminal offence." And as such "The Russians had good reason to arrest Sergei Magnitsky for Hermitage tax evasion."
"The Court observes that the inquiry into alleged tax evasion, resulting in the criminal proceedings against Mr Magnitskiy, started in 2004, long before he complained that prosecuting officials had been involved in fraudulent acts."Prior to Magnitsky's arrest, because of what Russia considered to be questionable activities, Browder had been refused entry to Russia in 2005. However, he did not take lightly his rebuff by the post-Yeltsin Russian government under Vladimir Putin. As succinctly expressed by Professor Halyna Mokrushyna at the University of Ottawa:
[Browder] began to engage in a worldwide campaign against the Russian authorities, accusing them of corruption and violation of human rights. The death of his accountant and auditor Sergei Magnitsky while in prison became the occasion for Browder to launch an international campaign presenting the death as a ruthless silencing of an anti-corruption whistleblower. But the case of Magnitsky is anything but.Despite Brower's claims that Magnitsky died as a result of torture and beatings, authentic documents and testimonies show that Magnitsky died because of medical neglect – he was not provided adequate treatment for a gallstone condition. It was negligence typical at that time of prison bureaucracy, not a premeditated killing. Because of the resulting investigation, many high level functionaries in the prison system were fired or demoted.
For the past ten years Browder has maintained that Magnitsky was tortured and murdered by prison guards. Without any verifiable evidence he has asserted that Magnitsky was beaten to death by eight riot guards over 1 hour and 18 minutes. This was never corroborated by anybody, including by autopsy reports. It was even denied by Magnitsky's mother in a video interview.
Nevertheless, on the basis of his questionable beliefs, he has carried on a campaign to discredit and vilify Russia and its government and leaders.
Please go to The Unz Review to read the entire article.
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Aussie parliament committee censors Komisar's Browder take-down, redacting photos, text, evidence links
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